Beer is so expensive in Norway he actually needs a licence to get smashed.
Butter too.
Butter too.
Considered moving to Syndey for all of 3 minutes.
Postponed the business I have been working on for a year and began a different one instead, the new venture made a profit in the first month. In fact, I would go as far as saying that the first £1000 of pure profit was the easiest £320 I ever made.
Concluded that sometimes it is better to do what your head says even if it is not really what you want to do.
Geek wins of the year included seeing a game I made played at a gaming convention.
Geek failures included remaining single for the entire year, with just one - very disasterous - date.
Spent a £100 on a new 3D engine and then failed to write a single program with it. Began converting an existing program over but preffered the game with the original - free - OpenGL engine.
Managed to hide my age from my work colleagues for the entire year until the Xmas party after-party whilst drunkenly staggering into a Casino and I got age checked.
Got age checked at a casino - HOW AWESOME IS THAT!?
Managed to excessively flirt with most of my co workers for an entire year without a single restraining order. Awesome or what?
Cleared all my debts. I no longer think about money, I know I don't have much, but i'm not flying on the wire anymore
Moved house, I love my new home.
Cat did not get fleas once. WIN!
Postponed the business I have been working on for a year and began a different one instead, the new venture made a profit in the first month. In fact, I would go as far as saying that the first £1000 of pure profit was the easiest £320 I ever made.
Concluded that sometimes it is better to do what your head says even if it is not really what you want to do.
Geek wins of the year included seeing a game I made played at a gaming convention.
Geek failures included remaining single for the entire year, with just one - very disasterous - date.
Spent a £100 on a new 3D engine and then failed to write a single program with it. Began converting an existing program over but preffered the game with the original - free - OpenGL engine.
Managed to hide my age from my work colleagues for the entire year until the Xmas party after-party whilst drunkenly staggering into a Casino and I got age checked.
Got age checked at a casino - HOW AWESOME IS THAT!?
Managed to excessively flirt with most of my co workers for an entire year without a single restraining order. Awesome or what?
Cleared all my debts. I no longer think about money, I know I don't have much, but i'm not flying on the wire anymore
Moved house, I love my new home.
Cat did not get fleas once. WIN!
I've played with samples of different engine pitchess but you cannot overlap them, the sound is not a constant tone it has peeks and falls and you have to match them for the technique to work, and they are by their nature impossible to syncronise because as the pitch increases the peaks get closer together so the only solution is to use synthetic sound which would result in an overly complex simulation that sounds like a wet fish like LFS.
I dislike LFS sounds, looking back I do wonder how much the artificial syntheticness of the sound put me off driving the game, I think it might have been quite a noteable factor.
I do understand that some people rave over the sounds in LFS because they are "simulated" and therefor must be "better". But I race with my heart not my head so all I hear is the noise of a housefly bouncing around a tin can inside a foam lined sealed cardboard shoe box locked in a cupboard the other side of the house.
To my ears mocking GTR for it's sounds is like saying "hey guys, see this massive improvement? Well we don't want it and we are going to mock it because it's not dressed in our team colours.".
Christmas is some weird funny shit isnt it? Officially the celebration of the birth of the "baby Jesus", which always makes me laugh because:
Then there's the drive over to my parents house, mostly spent singing Space Hog at the top of my lungs to a highly appreciative audience of a steering wheel and 30 empty fag packets.
Mid morning is spent opening pound shop soaps from my brother and his family, some clothes from my Mum, and what I usually consider my main present - the one my sister gets which is usually something cool and very me.
Then there's the dinner, and because family are family and not friends there will be snipes and tensions. My parents willl bicker, my siblings will back chat each other, and i'll sit in the middle trying not to offend anyone.
The afternoon my brother will come up with some business idea that involves a tonne of work for me that i'll never do, we'll promise to write a computer game together again even though we'll never get around to it, and somebody at some point will utter the fateful words, "where is my web page" like I really need to take 5 non-paying clients on to the books, or want to spend my free time doing what I do for a living.
I shall then crash out on my parents spare bed, enjoy a much more mellow boxing day meal with a hangover, then go back home and stroke my kitten.
Same every year.
*According to the best guess based upon historical information. Some antiquitean sources suggest his birth may have been around July.
- He was born September 20th 6AD*
- On most of his birthdays he was not a baby
Then there's the drive over to my parents house, mostly spent singing Space Hog at the top of my lungs to a highly appreciative audience of a steering wheel and 30 empty fag packets.
Mid morning is spent opening pound shop soaps from my brother and his family, some clothes from my Mum, and what I usually consider my main present - the one my sister gets which is usually something cool and very me.
Then there's the dinner, and because family are family and not friends there will be snipes and tensions. My parents willl bicker, my siblings will back chat each other, and i'll sit in the middle trying not to offend anyone.
The afternoon my brother will come up with some business idea that involves a tonne of work for me that i'll never do, we'll promise to write a computer game together again even though we'll never get around to it, and somebody at some point will utter the fateful words, "where is my web page" like I really need to take 5 non-paying clients on to the books, or want to spend my free time doing what I do for a living.
I shall then crash out on my parents spare bed, enjoy a much more mellow boxing day meal with a hangover, then go back home and stroke my kitten.
Same every year.
*According to the best guess based upon historical information. Some antiquitean sources suggest his birth may have been around July.
It was 2006-2007 when I last ran a series but I had the opposite issue, lots of drivers signed up but they did not enter the first or second round because they wanted to see the series live up to its claims before committing to it, I then got flooded with new applications.
Then as the season wore on drivers who were gunning for glory but who's championships faltered began to drop out.
If I do another it will be a shorter series - about 4-6 races, and I would consider the idea of holding the whole thing in one weekend to maintain as much consistency as possible throughout the event.
In other words, the needs and wants of the drivers is more instant than that of the league. Drivers want on track action at that moment when they want it, but in this era of information overload you are soon lost in the crowd of other past times and events. Where you appealed to a niche interest a week ago, this week you need to appeal to new drivers.
The only tool you have in your armoury is to be as consistent as possible in yourself so that drivers see the benefit of turning up.
By postponing your previous event drivers may wonder what the odds of a race are when they next attend. So in future, if an events attendance is poor I would recommend running it anyway, don't pander to people who havn't shown up - because the most important thing you must do as a league admin is to be consistent.
If you are consistent, then those people who "get the message", which will be about 20% of your signups, will become consistent too.
Then as the season wore on drivers who were gunning for glory but who's championships faltered began to drop out.
If I do another it will be a shorter series - about 4-6 races, and I would consider the idea of holding the whole thing in one weekend to maintain as much consistency as possible throughout the event.
In other words, the needs and wants of the drivers is more instant than that of the league. Drivers want on track action at that moment when they want it, but in this era of information overload you are soon lost in the crowd of other past times and events. Where you appealed to a niche interest a week ago, this week you need to appeal to new drivers.
The only tool you have in your armoury is to be as consistent as possible in yourself so that drivers see the benefit of turning up.
By postponing your previous event drivers may wonder what the odds of a race are when they next attend. So in future, if an events attendance is poor I would recommend running it anyway, don't pander to people who havn't shown up - because the most important thing you must do as a league admin is to be consistent.
If you are consistent, then those people who "get the message", which will be about 20% of your signups, will become consistent too.
There are 3 things I do not do when dealing with "the public". I also don't do them at work, and I don't do them in my relationships - in fact, the only time I do them is when being sarcastic at friends. If you also stop doing this these things then you too will be a better person Walter:
You cant turn around a day before the kart meeting and say "They put me behind bars, the whole thing is off.". Plains will still fly, money will still get charged. The ripple effect of you stealing the other in-mates pencil and using it as an anal brush will have dramatic consequences for maybe 30 people as they all try to figure out what to do with 2-3 day holidays to Holland, possibly a hotel and so on.
People who live within Holland will still have time off work, possibly limiting the number of days they have available when someone responsible tries to organise an event down the road, resulting in nobody available for the event until the following year - lowering quality of life, and leading to teen suicides.
Everyone from air stewardesses to hotel owners to taxi drivers to cafe chefs will be effected by the lost trade, plunging the Netherlands into a recession that could take the rest of Europe with it.
And it'll all be your fault.
Are you seriously locked up in a padded cell and yet still think you are responsible enough to run a European karting event? I am curious to know, because i'm wondering if you are in for some form of megalomania. If you are, then my post really hasn't helped.
But the opening bit, the bit about blame, excuses and denial - i'd take that with you for the rest of your life. It'll go a long way to earning respect.
- Blame
- Excuses
- Denial
You cant turn around a day before the kart meeting and say "They put me behind bars, the whole thing is off.". Plains will still fly, money will still get charged. The ripple effect of you stealing the other in-mates pencil and using it as an anal brush will have dramatic consequences for maybe 30 people as they all try to figure out what to do with 2-3 day holidays to Holland, possibly a hotel and so on.
People who live within Holland will still have time off work, possibly limiting the number of days they have available when someone responsible tries to organise an event down the road, resulting in nobody available for the event until the following year - lowering quality of life, and leading to teen suicides.
Everyone from air stewardesses to hotel owners to taxi drivers to cafe chefs will be effected by the lost trade, plunging the Netherlands into a recession that could take the rest of Europe with it.
And it'll all be your fault.
Are you seriously locked up in a padded cell and yet still think you are responsible enough to run a European karting event? I am curious to know, because i'm wondering if you are in for some form of megalomania. If you are, then my post really hasn't helped.
But the opening bit, the bit about blame, excuses and denial - i'd take that with you for the rest of your life. It'll go a long way to earning respect.
You have to be pretty well off to be able to spend that much money on yourself in the month of December. Especially for a Dutch person who has both Christmas and Sinterklaas festivals to pay for!
From the several other attempts I have seen at organising a Dutch karting event I think you are better off organising an event that is less costly.
Also, attempting to profit out of it for an event of this kind is not the done thing. I have done lots of organised group activities over the years and I have never seen an organiser make a profit, although I have seen plenty make a loss (usually when people say they will come, dont give a deposit on time, and then drop out at the last moment ... a situation that is easy to avoid by handling deposits correctly).
With sufficient time to make travel arrangements, sort finances, and handle commercial commitments whilst I am away then I might attend a Dutch karting meet. But not at short notice during the Christmas period.
I would suggest revisiting this after the festive period, and find something that is lower cost per person - 180 is a big number to swallow on top of hotels and flights, perhaps an endurance event?
Also if you want people from other European countries to attend then reconsider doing it in central holland. There's nothing else there!
It might sound great for Dutch people to only have to travel 38 minutes from the border lands to the middle of your country, but you all got cars and Holland is tiny with a car. But to foreigners who are not used to such tiny countries and who wont have a car whilst there then holding it in or around Amsterdam suddenly makes it a trip worth doing - as Amsterdam has a tourist industry, the three farmers fields and a windmill in the middle of the Netherlands dont
From the several other attempts I have seen at organising a Dutch karting event I think you are better off organising an event that is less costly.
Also, attempting to profit out of it for an event of this kind is not the done thing. I have done lots of organised group activities over the years and I have never seen an organiser make a profit, although I have seen plenty make a loss (usually when people say they will come, dont give a deposit on time, and then drop out at the last moment ... a situation that is easy to avoid by handling deposits correctly).
With sufficient time to make travel arrangements, sort finances, and handle commercial commitments whilst I am away then I might attend a Dutch karting meet. But not at short notice during the Christmas period.
I would suggest revisiting this after the festive period, and find something that is lower cost per person - 180 is a big number to swallow on top of hotels and flights, perhaps an endurance event?
Also if you want people from other European countries to attend then reconsider doing it in central holland. There's nothing else there!
It might sound great for Dutch people to only have to travel 38 minutes from the border lands to the middle of your country, but you all got cars and Holland is tiny with a car. But to foreigners who are not used to such tiny countries and who wont have a car whilst there then holding it in or around Amsterdam suddenly makes it a trip worth doing - as Amsterdam has a tourist industry, the three farmers fields and a windmill in the middle of the Netherlands dont
In fairness to Audi they are as reliable as other cars. New Mercs on the other hand are three times more likely to break down than a BMW, they are in fact the car marque denying BMW the top spot in the new car breakdown chart of "cars that advertise they are reliable to counter the fact that they aren't".
Statistically the second most unreliable car manufacturer on the market. Source Top Gear. Discussion has been had here many times.
I typically drive big engined cars, although the last couple of years I've switched to a diesel workhorse, but with no claims my insurance on 3+ litre cars is not in the thousands.
If however your statement is correct, insurance is more expensive here, then that is interesting because most europeans who visit that I've spoken too have commented on the courtesy and general high standard of driving on British roads. A sentiment I can agree with, having given up driving when abroad myself as I often find myself exhausted from focusing too intensively on maintaining my British standards of due care and diligence on roads utter lawlessness.
DHL, now called Yodel in the UK, are in serious financial difficulties. Loosing £1.6m a week for an extended period the company has restructured and now uses contracted small local couriers to support a very small core distribution network. The contracted drivers do not appear to be offering a very good service on the whole, with many areas being almost impossible to deliver too and saturday deliveries just being a joke with - from experience a 0% successful delivery rate.
One of my biggest clients just moved their account away from DHL/Yodel because of the hundreds of parcels we sent there were some days when most of them were lost or damaged.
DHL/Yodel is owned by the one of the brothers who owns Barclays bank. A return to profit is therefor higher on the agenda than offering good service levels. As with most bank owned businesses short term fiscal return is the focus of their activities and consumers be damned.
Use at your own risk.
One of my biggest clients just moved their account away from DHL/Yodel because of the hundreds of parcels we sent there were some days when most of them were lost or damaged.
DHL/Yodel is owned by the one of the brothers who owns Barclays bank. A return to profit is therefor higher on the agenda than offering good service levels. As with most bank owned businesses short term fiscal return is the focus of their activities and consumers be damned.
Use at your own risk.
This isn't the RSPB, MS Trust has never appeared on our list of high earning charity CEO's. It started out as two science guys staying on after work to use work equipment to try and find a cure.
I'm pissed off with people telling me they're corrupt by citing other corrupt charities. MS Trust is not the Red Cross, I am not personally aware of any article of published data showing unreasonable staff bonus'.
If you must know my family got ripped off for £20k on a commercial property lease by a charity, if anyone is suspiscious of the kind of people who create charities then it's me.
I'm pissed off with people telling me they're corrupt by citing other corrupt charities. MS Trust is not the Red Cross, I am not personally aware of any article of published data showing unreasonable staff bonus'.
If you must know my family got ripped off for £20k on a commercial property lease by a charity, if anyone is suspiscious of the kind of people who create charities then it's me.
Sorry I use this forum on my phone a lot, and havnt checked in much since the thread went downhill at terminal velocity. There are links now.
The motivation of raising money for such a good cause has kept me going this last week, but LFS forum on the whole made me a bit more pissed off.
What happened to this once great community?
This isn't my first charity project in LFS, nor is it my first to raise money for MS Trust. I have given so much into this community over the years but this last week has made me question whether I even want to carry on doing the vouchers and puts developing anything new for LFS even further out of my consideration.
This was a good and worthy cause, and in no way was it deserving of the reaction it got.
of course he cant, but the facts are plain for themselves: I dont do dental floss with a wire brush and wouldn't wish it on anyone else.
Regards me being Nigerian, you could of course make a direct donation - I said that in my original post. It looks like their form takes card payments rather than paypal or bank transfers. I'm not sure if the direct link works so i'll provide a site link too.
My week was sucessful, whether I stay off them well that is another matter.
Direct Link to Donation Form: https://www.secure-server.co.uk/forms/SS0666.cfm
Link to MS Trust (Donation is green blob in top right): http://www.mstrust.org.uk/
As for all the ****s in this thread, I hope you get buggered real soon - and if it's my big black royal nigerian cock doing the buggering then that's all for the better as far as i'm concerned.
Why do I need to be fair when I didn't get a single pledge out of you guys?
I actually lost a lot of faith in this community over the last week, I don't think I'll be doing my Xmas gift this year.
I actually lost a lot of faith in this community over the last week, I don't think I'll be doing my Xmas gift this year.
Troll lacks originality.
And is a tight ****.
And is a tight ****.
To all you ****witts havin a go and using the excuse that my attitude resulted in no donations at all from all the people I know here that's bullshit.
I've been around years, I've given endlessly to this community and even my last post was a gift to you guys. I've given you software, discounts for your real cars, an entertaining league podcast and the CTRA, I gave you bump and jump and hires textures in game.
This post had plenty of views and no replies when it dropped off the page, and I realised a controversial post would at least get some discussion going so I called it as it is: despite knowing some LFSrs in real life having been to numerous LFS events, the total raised from this community is £0
LFSrs are selfish twats who are only interested in what's in it for them. But of course the real issue here is my attitude, because when I asked nicely it was so much easier to just ignore me - but when I tell you to suck your own cancerous heameroids you find it that much harder to pass unnoticed as a selfish twat.
I've been around years, I've given endlessly to this community and even my last post was a gift to you guys. I've given you software, discounts for your real cars, an entertaining league podcast and the CTRA, I gave you bump and jump and hires textures in game.
This post had plenty of views and no replies when it dropped off the page, and I realised a controversial post would at least get some discussion going so I called it as it is: despite knowing some LFSrs in real life having been to numerous LFS events, the total raised from this community is £0
LFSrs are selfish twats who are only interested in what's in it for them. But of course the real issue here is my attitude, because when I asked nicely it was so much easier to just ignore me - but when I tell you to suck your own cancerous heameroids you find it that much harder to pass unnoticed as a selfish twat.
So far I am raising around £300 by the end of the week. LFS players are responsible for £0 of that, even including the ones on my Facebook. Infact so far LFSrs as a group have only managed to be negative about it.
What's up with you tight fisted bastards?
It's a worthy cause, and a tough challenge and I'm calling you out to do your part.
What's up with you tight fisted bastards?
It's a worthy cause, and a tough challenge and I'm calling you out to do your part.
Dammit, it's first dates I usually screw up, not thirds!
Giving Up for MS Trust
Having lost two friends to multiple sclerosis including a best friend I care very much about the work of MS Trust who provide invaluable care for people for people suffering from MS and fund research into finding cures for this debilitating condition.
Today on my drive to work a great idea occurred to me, as a smoker of over 20 years and a self confessed complete addict I thought raising money for MS Trust would be a great motivator to quit the habit.
So I'm asking everyone to make a donation for each day I'm successful in quitting smoking for the first week.
I'm already raising well over £20/day and I thought I would extend an invitation to you - my car racing friends - to help this important work happen for people who really need it.
Would you be kind enough to pledge a donation for each successful day in the first week?
Post your pledges please, and we'll sort out either paypal donations (via the big donation i'm making or you can donate directly at http://www.mstrust.org.uk/) on Monday 3rd October (conveniently right after payday!)
Today on my drive to work a great idea occurred to me, as a smoker of over 20 years and a self confessed complete addict I thought raising money for MS Trust would be a great motivator to quit the habit.
So I'm asking everyone to make a donation for each day I'm successful in quitting smoking for the first week.
I'm already raising well over £20/day and I thought I would extend an invitation to you - my car racing friends - to help this important work happen for people who really need it.
Would you be kind enough to pledge a donation for each successful day in the first week?
Post your pledges please, and we'll sort out either paypal donations (via the big donation i'm making or you can donate directly at http://www.mstrust.org.uk/) on Monday 3rd October (conveniently right after payday!)
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cool reading, and in this report Tor Dean and I won both races :P I like the sound of that...
Alas, it was third in the second race. I believe it was Jason and Andrew Lovett who took the afternoons race.
Now that's dealt with, I do believe you called me "weird" :gnasher:....
Alas, it was third in the second race. I believe it was Jason and Andrew Lovett who took the afternoons race.
Now that's dealt with, I do believe you called me "weird" :gnasher:....
Hi guys
I just thought I'd bump this as these codes will start to expire soon. I know there's been a few orders with the codes and it makes me happy that some of you have shared in my little Xmas celebrations.
I'm still not convinced by this whole summer Xmas thing.
*disowns family*
I just thought I'd bump this as these codes will start to expire soon. I know there's been a few orders with the codes and it makes me happy that some of you have shared in my little Xmas celebrations.
I'm still not convinced by this whole summer Xmas thing.
*disowns family*
Definitely! Usually when I turn up at a new track I at least know how to drive the kart, but today I was learning both the kart and the track and I approached it a bit wrong - I tried to rely on my experience of karting but of course I didn't have any because the DMax's are so different to 4 strokes!
It felt nice to taste 2 stroke acceleration again though, i'm going to get a bit more seat time before I do a race so I wont be at MK in September.
Hopefully if my new business enterprise doesn't swallow all my cash i'll be there for the season finale.
I think I have enough speed to be somewhere in the top half, but i'm definitely lacking the consistency which can only come through seat time.
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